different? i still think this is so baffling sometimes. there s such a level of interest in it. and everyone wants know and everyone has a theory, but at the end of the day there s only so many facts and that just sort of leaves us i do think these next few hours could be critical if those surveillance planes, the poseidon or the orion, the p-3, the p-8 if they get over this area and ships get closer, maybe they ll be able to touch and feel effectively what this wreckage is, what the debris is and we ll know is it part of the plane or is it a container falling off some cargo ship? i suspect the next few hours will be critical. don t go toofr away. still ahead, they may help solve the mystery of flight 370 but flight, voice and data recorders will soon fall silent and stop sending location signals. can searcher s beat the clock? a father holding out.
his words, the fact that those elts did not go off, investigators wouldn t be able to rule out the fact that this plane maybe landed safely somewhere, so that s a lead they have to chase down. but just for some perspective here, those elts do not work in water. even though it made that impact with the water, once it goes down into the water, you would not get a signal and everything would happen so quickly. so as one person put it tot me, it would make sense that this elt did not signal. elt, what does that stand for? the emergency locator transmitter and that s it right in front of you there. this is it. and that is to let search and rescue essentially know where a crash site is. that did not go off in this flight. if it did indeed make impact with something, they didn t get that signal. all right. thanks very much, rene, don t go toofr away. we re digging deeper.